On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 22:00 -0500, Joe Smith wrote: > Joe Smith wrote: > > This is the second update in as many days that has resulted in a > > corrupted rpm database for me. ... > > Just an update, FWIW. > > I continued to have routine rpmdb corruption issues, sometimes with as > simple a command as "yum remove foo-1.2.3-1.fc8". The rebuilddb > procedure was always successful and allowed me to proceed with minimal > package management, but after the next reboot (it's just a desktop: > booted mornings; shut down at night), yum commands would encounter > corruption again. > > This continued up until about a week ago, when I decided that I would > try shutting off yum-updatesd altogether, and since then I've had zero > problems with any yum commands, including two updates involving several > packages. > > I realize this is purely circumstantial, and I have no explanation why > no one else is reporting trouble, if there's a problem with yum-updatesd. > > Since it still wouldn't prove anything to re-enable yum-updatesd and see > the problem return (or not), and I don't care to fiddle with rebuilddb > without a chance to get some solid evidence in return, I'm just going to > leave yum-updatesd off, for now. > > If anyone has any thoughts or suggestions for further steps to > understanding this, I'd be most interested to hear them. ---- I have seen little to no complaints regarding this other than yours. I suspect that it is not an endemic problem (ala RHL 8.0) Last time I suggested that you peruse/search bugzilla for other reports as probably the best way to see if there are reports similar to yours. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
